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Hummel's got some really nice tape. Looks like a guy who can start out on teams and also give them some depth chart options for packages.
Rapp yeah I agree he's a likely trade or cut target. Rams love him but at some point c'mon man. Though I've been expecting him to get squeezed out for some time now and been wrong to date.
GBs defense has a chance to be elite and their run game is solid. Scary combo with Rodgers and that weak schedule, likely the one seed again.
KC/Buf are the only contenders in the AFC to me, with the Ravens a wildcard. Bengals are going to suffer from their schedule. Just a brutal division and I think they're clearly worse than Baltimore.
I think the Niners and Colts need to be swapped and I'd agree with tier 2.
That's not bad, but I would eliminate Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch and insert Torry Holt. It's not that Hirsch shouldn't be on the list, it's just that we never saw him play. In fact, there might be more old-timers on this list if someone wanted tHOFerso look into it, but I started watching in 1969 and that's as far back as I go.
Yeah, I mean left off a HOFer like Tom Mack, and Waterfield Fears & Van Brocklin are Rams legends. I would even take Harrah over Whit because he played with the Rams for 11 or 12 yrs, was a 6x pro bowler, 2x all pro, and great blocker for some great ground games.
I think one of the primary goals of this camp is an alignment of the safety depth chart. That unit has not been strong since they let JJ walk. They need to find their pairing for Cover 2/4/6 and then get all the roles sorted for sub groups around whoever the corners will be. Raheem has his work cut out for sure. By far the biggest movement area on the roster for the 2022 season.
He might have done us a favor. I think we are a more complete team now. I'd like a little more edge rusher depth, but I'm more confident with our starting 22 than I was at the beginning of last season.
Yes, it's all how you manage it. I feel the same way after the Tyreek trade. It hurt a lot at the time and I didn't see the justification or vision the front office had. Now that the draft has passed, I feel the team as a whole is much better. There is a fine line between a balanced team and a top heavy team. A nightmare scenario was the Saints two or three years ago.
The Rams played a ton of cover 4 last year. That coverage is vulnerable to a dink and dunk offense like what the Lions played.
The emergence of Scott, it gives Morris the opportunity to play a nickel as his base defense. For example with Rapp, Scott and Fuller, he can play Rapp as his in the box "buzz" defender in a cover 3. This would leave Wagner and Jones as the only LBs on the field other than the edges. In lieu of Rapp, he could play Durant when a team is playing 11 personnel.
IMO the key to this defense will be getting consistent pressure from that second edge position. With Kyler, Lance and Lock I'm expecting a lot of dink and dunk within the division. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Morris played more cover 3 with the personnel he has now. Anyway it will be interesting to see who emerges this year.
Has football changed too much to even allow a "Faulk" to happen again?
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Will the NFL ever have a running back like Marshall Faulk again?
It’s hard to believe it now, but Marshall Faulk’s Hall of Fame trajectory did not even really begin to take flight until after five seasons and a trade from the Indianapolis Colts to the St. Louis Rams in 1999. These days, it is all too common for fans to assume that running backs are not physically capable of playing more than four years in the league, but ironically many would amend that statement if the player is capable of also catching passes.
Somehow if you’re purely a runner, your career lifespan is assumed to be shorter and less valuable than if you’re also (and mostly) a receiver.
Well, Marshall Faulk could do both at an elite level. Did something happen to running back bodies from the Jim Brown era to the Walter Payton era to the Marshall Faulk era to the Adrian Peterson era that suddenly made it impossible to handle a full workload for more than one or two seasons?
Payton, for example, averaged 370 touches per season from age 22 to age 27, covering years 2-7 in his Bears career. But he also averaged 381 touches per season from age 29-32, covering years 9-12 in his career. Payton played a 13th season in 1987, which is when he did start to show signs of decline.
Faulk started 121 games over his first eight years in the NFL, averaging 338 touches per season and he played in all 16 games five times in that span. Faulk also played in another 12 career postseason games and was heavily utilized most of the time. He was a starter for the Rams in 2004 at the age of 31, then a backup in 2005 before retiring after that season.
Is it really impossible for a running back can be good into his 30s anymore?
Writers at Sharp Football Analysis recently had a discussion about one of the top running backs in the NFL today, Christian McCaffrey, and said that he was “This era’s Marshall Faulk.”
But is that even possible anymore? McCaffrey still has a long ways to go to prove something like that.
McCaffrey didn’t miss any games over the first three years of his career, culminating in a 2019 season in which he had 403 touches (287 carries for 1,387 yards, 116 catches for 1,005 yards) and scoring 19 touchdowns.
But McCaffrey missed 13 games in 2020 and 10 games in 2021. Over the last two seasons, McCaffrey has 10 starts, 158 carries, 54 receptions, and has scored eight times. He turns 26 on Tuesday and is hoping to revive his career with a strong season in 2022. If the Carolina Panthers are as bad as they presently appear to be with Sam Darnold at quarterback, could McCaffrey also be headed for a mid-career trade like Faulk?
He has a lot of catching up to do.
From 1998 to 2001, Marshall Faulk made 60 starts and averaged 272 carries for 1,360 yards with 11 touchdowns, plus 84 receptions for 887 yards and 11 more touchdowns. That is 357 touches and 6.3 yards per touch per season.
McCaffrey isn’t even close.
The NFL’s top running back of the era right now is Derrick Henry but he has not been able to challenge the question of whether or not running backs can still handle 350-400 touches in a season. Henry was in a committee with DeMarco Murray for the first few years of his career, not handling more than 200 touches until year three, and not getting 300 touches until year four. He had a career-high 397 touches in 2020, winning AP Offensive Player of the Year after rushing for 2,027 yards and 17 touchdowns (his second season in a row leading the NFL in yards and touchdowns), but Henry missed nine games last season.
He also doesn’t have the receiving prowess of players like Faulk and McCaffrey.
Can Henry, now 28, reasonably play another five years in the league?
What do you think? Is it possible for running backs to handle that kind of workload anymore? If not, why isn’t it? If it is presumably “easier” to run in the NFL as defenses load up on more pass-rushing defensive linemen and coverage-specialist linebackers, then why can’t more teams take advantage of high quality rushing abilities? And where are the players who can carry it 200 times and catch it 100 times?
Alvin Kamara seemed headed in that direction but he has not played in 16 games since his rookie campaign, missing a career-high four contests last season. Despite his best efforts, Kamara is nowhere near the abilities of Marshall Faulk.
I'm thinking of planning a trip back to the US to take in a couple of games.
I was bummed that the weather delayed the opening of SoFi because I always planned on getting to a game before we moved back to the UK.
Then again it meant I got to see the last ever playoff game at the Coliseum (and a win over Dallas), so it wasn't all bad.
Even though I saw a couple of road games against the Cards I missed their new stadium by a year and baked my pasty tits off in the horrible monstrosity that was their home,
Anyway, I have suggested my 60th birthday which is this summer, as a reason/excuse to blow part of our retirement and was looking at the Atlanta home game and Cards road game as options.
Tickets look cheap and available for both, but (and I have done this a couple of times) would I be better waiting and buying outside on game day?
And, does anybody have any tips on where to avoid sitting at either stadium?
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I'm really hoping that Ken "Tommy" Dorsey makes a mess of the Bills offense and they really miss Brian Daboll. Doubtful, but I'm hoping. Part of the reason I wrote the article is because of opening night and the fact that Kromer coached here.
Rob Boras, wow, so glad he's no longer the Offensive Coordinator, but Boras is a solid TE Coach IMO and Dawson Knox is a sleeper in that offense.
